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78. Minutes of the 50th Meeting of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, Executive Office Building, Washington, December 18, 19561

Washington, December 18, 1956

PRESENT

  • William H. Jackson, Special Assistant to the President—Acting Chairman
  • Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State
  • W. Randolph Burgess, Under Secretary of the Treasury
  • Harold C. McClellan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
  • Earl L. Butz, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
  • D.A. FitzGerald, Deputy Director, International Cooperation Administration
  • W.B. Thorp, Chief, Office of Special Projects (ISA), Department of Defense
  • Victor E. Cooley, Deputy Director, Office of Defense Mobilization
  • Percival F. Brundage, Director, Bureau of the Budget
  • Joseph S. Davis, Member, Council of Economic Advisers
  • Robert Amory, Deputy Director (Intelligence), Central Intelligence Agency
  • Gabriel Hauge, Special Assistant to the President
  • Clarence Francis, Special Consultant to the President
  • I. Jack Martin, Administrative Assistant to the President
  • Joseph Rand, Acting Secretary, CFEP and their assistants.

I. CFEP 528—Authorities and Programs for the Disposal of Surplus Agricultural Commodities Abroad.

1. The Council on Foreign Economic Policy considered the recommendation of the Department of State, distributed to Council members on December 13, 1956 as CFEP 528/8, and agreed:

a.
That United States policy should be modified so as to allow surplus agricultural commodities to be exported for dollars at world market prices to Eastern European countries (except the Soviet Union) on a selective basis in the national interest; and
b.
That Congressional leaders be informed with respect to this policy.

Paul H. Cullen
Lt. Col., USA
  1. Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Records. Secret.↩